PHA-Exch> 22 May 2008, Side event to WHA: Meeting on Contracting Experiences

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: MMI Thomas Schwarz schwarz at medicusmundi.org



Referring to the announcement of PHM activities around the World Health
Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, the Medicus Mundi International Networks invites
you to another technical meeting during the Assembly. Would be nice to see
you there! Please feel free to contact me directly with questions.

 Medicus Mundi International Network



*Contracting experiences between non-governmental health *

*facilities and the public health sector in sub-Saharan Africa*



Technical Meeting as side event to the 61st World Health Assembly

Thursday, 22 May, 5.30–7.00 p.m., Salle XXII, UN Palais des Nations, Geneva



* "Contracting is like a starting train. If you do not catch it, you will
remain in the station."*

* "It is one thing putting contracts on paper, but implementing is another
thing."*



*Medicus Mundi International (MMI)* is an international, pluralistic
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). It groups a dozen different NGOs
specialized in the field of Primary Health Care (PHC) and district health
systems. One of its strategic priorities is the promotion of the integration
of private not for profit (PNFP) health facilities in national health
systems.



*MMI has been strongly advocating the development of contractual
arrangements* between private not for profit health facilities and
Ministries of Health. In order to promote this approach, MMI organized, in
May 1999, a meeting on "Contracting NGOs for Health" as a side event to the
52th World Health Assembly.



*In May 2003, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution* on "The role
of contractual arrangements in improving health systems' performance" (WHA
56.25) promoted by MMI.



*Five years later, MMI invites you to a technical meeting on contracting
experiences.* As a side event to the 61st World Health Assembly, the meeting
will allow interested WHA delegates and other participants to obtain an
insight into some experiences of private not for profit health facilities
with contractual arrangements and to discuss technical and political
implications of these experiences for the future.



Speakers:



- Carissa F. Étienne, WHO Assistant Director-General  Health Systems and
Services

- Jean Perrot, WHO Health Systems Financing

- Bart Criel and Delphine Boulenger, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

- Yves Sossou, AMCES Benin, Member of the MMI Network

- Edson Friday Agaba, Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Uganda

- Guus Eskens, Medicus Mundi International



Meeting website with program and documentation:

www.medicusmundi.org/conferences/Geneva2008
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